Purpose A food security indicator for technology impact assessment is needed that can be constructed with available data, is comparable over time and space, and represents the multiple dimensions of food security. Methodology/approach In this chapter, we review some commonly used food security...

Based on the hypothesis that Egyptian farmers maximise economic profits, the multiproduct translog profit function is used to estimated input demand and output supply functions for corn, rice and cotton corps grown in Egypt's Nile delta. It is shown that Egypt's agricultural policies of taxing...